Obvious you have a bug up the backside, so I am totally hands off untilyou and Martin are done. See you back at 2.5.10. I will not comment onthe changes because you want something and I do not have the timetable todeliver and you are upset.

I am more concerned with the stablity of the core of ATA/ATAPI and next inqueue was to address the entire ATAPI data-phases issues that appear tohave some problems.

It is clear you want a cosmetic change and I am not ready to make one.

Therefore I will be patient and wait for you get the facelift you want andthen see what needs to be salvaged afterwards.

--a

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:> >> > Martin,> >> > please tell us up-front if you are able to make Linux work> > with 48-bit IDE stuff so Linux is able to talk to drives> > larger than 137 GB.> >> > If you're not, please stop pissing off Andre and work> > together with him ...> > Rik, get off the high horse.> > 2.5.x already supports 48-bit LBA addressing.> > And quite frankly, it's not Martin who cannot work with Andre, it's Andre> who so far has shown himself _totally_ unable to work with anybody at all.> > Whenever somebody comes and even tries to do trivial and obviously correct> cleanups that do not actually change any semantics at all, Andre stands> out and shouts bloody murder from the rooftops, completely ignoring the> fact that he hasn't even looked at the patches.> > All the crap Andre has shouted about "IDE mess" and "timing changes" is> total and utter CRAP. None of the patches I've seen has changed _anything_> but cleanups, or removed _any_ features.> > Guys, you need to realize that Martin is NOT the bad guy here. The problem> is not Martin, the problem is that Andre cannot take any level or> criticism, and in the five years or so that he has been maintainer I have> yet to see a _single_ person who has been able to work together with him> (as opposed to some people who have been able to maintain their own> subdrivers _despite_ him).> > Andre, your threats about not wanting to maintain 2.5.x are just a symptom> of this inability to accept the fact that other people actually do know> what they are doing, even if what they are doing is only cleanups with no> semantic changes.> > Rik, _look_ at the patches, instead of just taking Andre's word for it.> > Linus